Many Nigerians will die before change will come – Top 10 Quotes (pictured)
Nigerians are facing the most difficult period of the nation’s democratic era and many have continued to ask where are the dividends of democracy, even as there are fears that the promise of change may not come soon enough.
Below are 10 quotes that tend a vivid tale of the pressure and tension experienced in within Nigeria in the course of the passing week.
1. I will destroy Nigeria with the truth”
Nnamdi Kanu who is the leader of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) has vowed to destroy Nigeria. The pro-Biafra champion who has been incarcerated since 2015 explained that he plans to destroy Nigeria not with explosives but with truth.
2. “If you keep reforming and reforming and the people are suffering and dying, you may reach the Promised Land alone”
Senator Shehu Sani has warned President Muhammadu Buhari that the promised change may come late and cause the death of Nigerians before its arrival.
3. “My belief is that democracy allowed for anybody including President Buhari for that matter to contest any election and it is the prerogative rights of Nigerians to vote or not to vote for them.”
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo denying reports that he has warned President Muhammadu Buhari against seeking re-election in 2019.
4. “Sheriff can as well begin to sleep in Obasanjo’s house, it is good riddance to bad rubbish.”
Ekiti stte governor, Ayodele Fayose has berated the ousted chairman of the PDP, Ali Modu Sheriff over his visit to former President Olusegun Obasanjo earlier today, September 3.
5. “The man who once led Nigeria as a military dictator might be sliding towards former autocratic tendencies”
Tom Marino who is a member of the US congress writting a letter to the secretary of state, John Kerry asking the US to stop providing security assistance to Nigeria.
6. “I have said to my brother that I wish him well with the dying baby they have put on his laps because PDP is comatose”
Former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo describing opposition party – the PDP as a “dying party”. Obasanjo after a closed-door meeting with ousted PDP chairman, Ali Modu Sheriff in his hilltop mansion in Abeokuta today, September 3.
7. “If we do not do something concrete now on these children that are growing up malnourished, sick with hunger, poverty and malnutrition in Borno state, then we are going to have another war that is worse than the Boko Haram war.”
Senate leader, Senator Ali Ndume warning that if something urgent was not done, a war worse than the Boko Haram insurgency looms in the North east region, especially in Borno state where he comes from.
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8. “I do not think that the federal government is going to have another amnesty programme; it is very expensive and at present, our economy is not in the right status.”
The special adviser to the president on Niger Delta, Brig-Gen Paul Boroh (rtd), has said the federal government has no plans of enrolling more militants into the amnesty programme.
9. “He has just aggravated our economic situation in the country. Six months no Minister and the country was drifting and has not recovered till today and he has brought us to this level.”
A former All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant in Benue state, Nath Apir, says Nigerians are currently regretting voting for President Muhammadu Buhari at the last general elections.
10. “History has taught us that change does not come as easy as that. Change will come after much hard work, patience and perseverance.”
President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that the promised change by his administration will come after much hard work, patience and perseverance.
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